Moa China/ Japan Rebuild/ Vietnam War/ 1970's - 1990's Flashcards
(38 cards)
These were teens, young adults who used violence and intimidation against the bourgeois and other opposition in China during the Cultural Revolution
The Red Guards
The Communist leader or China beginning in 1949
Mao Zedong
The US president who made the historic visit to China in 1972, starting a time period with less tensions during the cold war
Nixon
This group were the rebel fighters and supporters of Communism and Ho Chi Minh who lived in South Vietnam
Vietcong
This was the group who overthrew the Cambodia government in 1975 and made the people leave the cities for forced farm labor resulting in over 1,000,000 deaths
Khmer Rouge
Longtime leader of the independence movement who led the rebellions against foreign control of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
Soviet leader whos openness and restructuring policies allowed the Russians a taste of Western culture and economic practices
Gorbachev
The name given to refugees who fled South Vietnam following North Vietnam’s takeover and change to communist rule in 1975
Boat People
The Afghani, Islamic rebel group, supported by the US with weapons to fight against the Soviet invasion
Mujahdeen
The leader of the USSR when the breakup of the republics occurred in 1991
Gorbachev
Led by Lech Walesa, It was the name of the outlawed shipyard workers union in Poland that played an initial role in looking to gain worker’s rights during the early eighties
Glasnost
The Great Leap Forward was the name of the policies to rapidly develop a steel making industry as well as huge production in farming in what country
China
This nation prospered economically during the 1960’s and in part due their ability to invest tax money into their industry and not defense/military since the US had armed forces based in their country for protection.
Cuba
What was the name of the battle where the Vietminh defeated the French in 1953, causing the French to give up their colony in Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Which SE Asian country was split into Communist north and non-communist south due to the Geneva Accords in 1955
Vietnam
This was the name of a decade long period of better relations between the superpowers during the Cold War (ANSWER A) that came to and end when the USSR invaded which country (ANSWER B) in 1979
A:Detente
B: Afghanistan
The Domino Theory was seen as a significant threat by the US to occur in what region if the world?
Southeast Asia
On what continent did many Marxist uprising occur in many of the young, newly independent nation from the 1950’s to the 1970’s
Africa
What was the country where the Khmer Rouge tried to erase all signs of westernization and force the people to lead an agricultural lifestyle
Cambodia
Due to the Solidarity movement, what Eastern European country was the first to break free from Soviet influence, Iron Curtain control in 1989
Poland
Answer with the location of what is described below
——————————————————————————– In what city was the barrier which the barrier symbolized the Cold War, opened up and torn down in 1989
Berlin (wall)
The first of the many Soviet republics to declare its independence from USSR control in 1990
Lithuania
Why did the US and the South Vietnamese not allow a democratic election which would have unified both North and South Vietnam together in 1956 (LONG ANSWER)
They figured that Ho Chi Minh would easily win and would eventually unite the nation under a communist government
Why was the year 1968 viewed as the turning point of the Vietnam War (LONG ANSWER)
The “Tet offensive” showed that no one was safe. They didn’t succeed but it still reached the US, making families at home fear. Along with the Ani-War movement
